Whom to Elect to the State Duma[1]

Citizens! See to it That the Whole People Clearly Understands What the Chief Parties Are that Are Fighting in the Elections in St. Petersburg and What Each of Them Strives For!

Published:Published November 23, 1906 in leaflet form as a supplement toProletary, No. 8.

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Citizens!Anyone who wants to take an intelligent part in the elections to the
State Duma must first of all clearly understand the difference between the three
main parties. TheBlack Hundredsstand for pogroms and the violence of
the tsarist government. TheCadetsstand for the interests of the
liberal landlords and capitalists. TheSocial-Democratsstand for the
interests of the working class and all the working and exploited people.

Anyonewho wants to uphold intelligently the interests of the working class and
all working people must know which party is really able most consistently and
resolutely to defend these interests.

[1]The leaflet“Whom to Elect to the State
Duma”was written prior to the elections to the Second Duma. In the
article “The Government’s Falsification of the Duma and the Tasks of the
Social Democrats”, Lenin called this leaflet a poster “about the
threechiefparties” which took part in the Duma elections. The
leaflet was printed in Vyborg by the editorial hoard ofProletaryas a
supplement to No. 5; it appeared in three editions (one in full and two
abridged) in St. Petersburg in 1906. In the abridged form it was also published
by the Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Kostroma and Kharkov committees of the R.S.D.L.P., by
the

Ob groupof the R.S.D.L.P., the Central Committee of the Social-Democrats of
the Lettish Territory and the Central Committee of the Latvian
Social-Democrats.